ERIC Number: EJ922212
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jun
Pages: 29
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ISSN: ISSN-1052-5629
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Management Education for Practicing Managers: Combining Academic Rigor with Personal Change and Organizational Action
Berggren, Christian; Soderlund, Jonas
Journal of Management Education, v35 n3 p377-405 Jun 2011
For several decades, management educators have discussed the difficulty of accommodating the competing values of academic rigor and organizational relevance. Only a few articles, however, consider approaches for integrating theory and practice in educational programs for working managers. Building on 15 years of experience in executive education, this article presents an approach grounded in experiential and action learning, which combines personal learning and organizational action without compromising academic standards. The following educational practices are discussed and evaluated: reflection reports, personal learning contracts, roundtable examinations, live cases, action-oriented thesis work, and organizational knowledge theaters. Taken together, the approach constitutes a powerful program design to address multiple learning loci and combinations of reflection and action, albeit one with considerable challenges and difficulties, as the authors discuss. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Management Development, Educational Practices, Experiential Learning, Action Research, Reflection, Performance Contracts, Reports, Tests, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Theses, Theater Arts, Professional Continuing Education, Masters Programs
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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